In the constant cat and mouse game that is PC security, hackers have increasingly turned to firmware exploits to carry out their attacks. There are a couple of reasons for the uptick. One obvious one ...

When Kaspersky Lab revealed last week that it had uncovered a sophisticated piece of malware designed to plant malicious code inside the firmware of computers, it should have surprised no one. And ...

In early 2018, the Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities required Technology Support Services to update BIOS firmware on our campus Dell computers. Since then, there have been multiple variants of the ...

One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer hard drive's firmware with malicious code.

Security researchers have warned for many years that failure to digitally sign and validate the low-level firmware found in computers can lead to damaging compromises that are very hard to detect and ...

Google bought VirusTotal, an online virus and URL scanner, back in 2012 and it continues to run as an independent company even today. Their website and Mac app offers a very useful utility that lets ...

Most computer peripherals, including printers, contain an on-board chip that stores a small program that governs basic device functionality. Collectively, the chip and its program are referred to as ...

If the message Your computer’s system firmware does not include enough information to properly configure and use this device (Code 35) appears on one of the devices, it means that your computer’s ...